Pivotal Announces Raises $253 Million led by new investor Ford, Microsoft, GE, EMC and VMware

2016.05.07

San Francisco, Calif., USA - May 05, 2016 - Pivotal, the company accelerating digital transformation for enterprises, today announced that it expects to close a Series C financing round highlighted by $253 million in new cash, led by new investor Ford Motor Company, in conjunction with Microsoft and all previous investors GE, EMC and VMware. The deal is expected to close in May 2016, subject to customary conditions, including receipt of required regulatory approval. Pivotal works with nearly one-third of the Fortune 100 companies, including industry leaders such as GE, Ford, Verizon, Home Depot, Comcast, Humana, Lockheed Martin, and Allstate, each using Pivotal's products and services to digitally transform their businesses and disrupt established markets.

Pivotal’s Cloud Native platform drives software innovation for many of the world’s most admired brands.
With millions of developers in communities around the world, Pivotal technology touches billions of users every day.
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San Francisco, Calif., USA - May 05, 2016

• Series C financing raises $253 million in new cash led by Ford Motor Company, in conjunction with new investor Microsoft

• Microsoft’s investment is a result of significant and growing customer demand for Pivotal Cloud Foundry on Microsoft Azure

• April 2016 marked Pivotal’s three-year anniversary

• 30% of the Fortune 100 currently work with Pivotal

Pivotal®, the company accelerating digital transformation for enterprises, today announced that it expects to close a Series C financing round highlighted by $253 million in new cash, led by new investor Ford Motor Company, in conjunction with Microsoft and all previous investors GE, EMC and VMware.

Pivotal’s Cloud Native platform drives software innovation for many of the world’s most admired brands.
With millions of developers in communities around the world, Pivotal technology touches billions of users every day.
Photo courtesy of Pivotal

The deal is expected to close in May 2016, subject to customary conditions, including receipt of required regulatory approval.

On the heels of its three-year anniversary, Pivotal continues to see widespread and growing demand from enterprises looking to use software to transform their businesses.

Pivotal works with nearly one-third of the Fortune 100 companies, including industry leaders such as GE, Ford, Verizon, Home Depot, Comcast, Humana, Lockheed Martin, and Allstate, each using Pivotal’s products and services to digitally transform their businesses and disrupt established markets.
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The company now works with seven of the top 10 U.S. banks, three of the top five global auto manufacturers, and five of the top 10 telecommunication companies, validating Pivotal’s unique value proposition of delivering a modern software development methodology coupled with a modern cloud platform and data tools.

The Pivotal approach enables enterprises to build and operate software at startup speeds and deliver new experiences to their customers.

Ford today announces an investment in Pivotal, a cloud-based software platform company headquartered in San Francisco, to further enhance its software development capabilities and deliver innovations to customers more quickly.
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This funding follows major company milestones, including:

• Recently announced first-quarter 2016 revenue of $83 million, up 56% year over year

• Annualized recurring revenue* (ARR) of $116 million at March 31, 2016, up more than 200% year over year for Pivotal’s subscription software products - Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Pivotal Big Data Suite

Ford today announces an investment in Pivotal, a cloud-based software platform company headquartered in San Francisco, to further enhance its software development capabilities and deliver innovations to customers more quickly.
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Pivotal works with nearly one-third of the Fortune 100 companies, including industry leaders such as GE, Ford, Verizon, Home Depot, Comcast, Humana, Lockheed Martin, and Allstate, each using Pivotal’s products and services to digitally transform their businesses and disrupt established markets.

Ford today announces an investment in Pivotal, a cloud-based software platform company headquartered in San Francisco, to further enhance its software development capabilities and deliver innovations to customers more quickly.
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“Here at Pivotal we are partnering with customers to create a world where the largest and most admired companies can build and run software like Google, Uber or any venture-backed startup. This investment will accelerate our global reach to bring our unique software development methodology and modern cloud platform and analytics tools to every forward-thinking CEO,” said Rob Mee, Pivotal CEO. “We are excited to announce Ford and Microsoft as strategic partners to help introduce Pivotal’s transformative cloud and analytics software to the next thousand customers.”

Ford today announces an investment in Pivotal, a cloud-based software platform company headquartered in San Francisco, to further enhance its software development capabilities and deliver innovations to customers more quickly.
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From personalized healthcare to networked industrial machines to the connected car, the largest enterprises in key industry verticals such as automotive, banking, telecommunications, insurance, retail, and many more are building radical new experiences on top of Pivotal technology.

Ford today announces an investment in Pivotal, a cloud-based software platform company headquartered in San Francisco, to further enhance its software development capabilities and deliver innovations to customers more quickly.
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“Pivotal Cloud Foundry is the foundation for Predix, GE's Industrial Internet platform,” said Bill Ruh, CEO, GE Digital. “Using this modern cloud software allowed us to quickly build and scale our platform - and since opening for general availability in February, more than 8,500 developers have joined the Predix community.“

Ford today announces an investment in Pivotal, a cloud-based software platform company headquartered in San Francisco, to further enhance its software development capabilities and deliver innovations to customers more quickly.
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Building on an existing relationship, Ford and Pivotal will continue to expand the use of cutting-edge software development methodologies, analytics tools, and a modern cloud platform throughout Ford Product Development and IT teams that are now innovating and operating at startup speeds - reducing project delivery timing from months to weeks.

Just last week, Ford launched FordPass®, an innovative consumer platform that was the first project to benefit from the collaboration with Pivotal.

Ford today announces an investment in Pivotal, a cloud-based software platform company headquartered in San Francisco, to further enhance its software development capabilities and deliver innovations to customers more quickly.
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“Expanding our business to be both an auto and mobility company requires leading-edge software expertise to deliver outstanding customer experiences,” said Mark Fields, Ford president and CEO. “Our investment in Pivotal will help strengthen our ability to deliver these customer experiences at the speed of Silicon Valley, including continually expanding FordPass – our digital, physical and personal mobility experience platform.”

Ford today announces an investment in Pivotal, a cloud-based software platform company headquartered in San Francisco, to further enhance its software development capabilities and deliver innovations to customers more quickly.
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Pivotal Cloud Foundry is an enterprise cloud native platform that allows Fortune 1000 companies to build new software at startup speed, as well as operate the thousands of applications central to running their businesses exponentially faster through world-class resiliency - greater automation, uptime and security.

Microsoft’s investment in Pivotal is a response to growing enterprise developers’ desire for an even closer relationship between Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Microsoft Azure.

Ford today announces an investment in Pivotal, a cloud-based software platform company headquartered in San Francisco, to further enhance its software development capabilities and deliver innovations to customers more quickly.
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“Our priority is ensuring that Microsoft Azure is the best place to run Java applications using Pivotal Cloud Foundry,” said Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President of Microsoft’s Cloud + Enterprise Division. “Today’s announcement is a reflection of this commitment, along with our continued emphasis on choice and flexibility across our cloud platform.”

About Pivotal

Pivotal’s Cloud Native platform drives software innovation for many of the world’s most admired brands.

With millions of developers in communities around the world, Pivotal technology touches billions of users every day.

After shaping the software development culture of Silicon Valley's most valuable companies for over a decade, today Pivotal leads a global technology movement transforming how the world builds software.